12 Quick Tips to Save your Business Energy | Glaze & Save

1. Make sure you have an energy policy. An energy policy will help you stay the course with your energy usage, as well as informing any behaviours that your employees need to address.

2. Get and energy audit: An energy audit can help you identify areas that you need to improve in your workplace. If you’re in Scotland, Resource Efficient Scotlandcan carry out a free energy audit in your workplace, with plenty of helpful tips to save you money.

3. Reduce paper waste: Encourage staff not to print out documents or files unless absolutely necessary. When printing use both sides of the paper. Use recycled paper and recycle the paper you use in turn.

4 . Hold virtual meetings and work from home: Reducing your in-person meetings can reduce your energy consumption in the office and your transportation costs. Using apps such as Skype can provide a cheap and convenient way of keeping in touch. Equally, allowing employees to work from home can further reduce lighting and heating costs in the office.

5. Turn off the lights!: Discourage the use of lights where daylight would suffice. Install motion sensor lights to ensure that lights are only being used where needed to ensure maximum energy efficiency.

6. Switch off equipment: It’s easy to walk away with equipment still left on, or using the dreaded standby function. Make sure that you switch off all equipment, unplugging if possible, to stop them from drawing power.

7. Switch over to LED lighting: LED lighting uses significantly less energy than conventional bulbs.

8. Invest in draught proofing: Small draughts can cause big problems in the office. Make sure you track down unwanted sources of air flow and stop them with a flexible invisible draught proofing product such as InvisiSeal.

9. Keep control of your heating and cooling: Keeping control of your office temperatures during the seasons, by using your thermostat or smart meter, can save you energy as well as keeping your staff more comfortable.

10. Replace old equipment with energy star appliances: If older appliances and heaters are not the most efficient available, then you should speculate accumulate by investing in A rated energy star appliances to save you money for years to come.

11. Encourage you employees to become more energy aware: We already blogged about this here, but encouraging your employees to take up your energy saving policies is the key to ensuring success in reducing your energy bills.

12. Take advantage of funding options available for energy efficient measures: There are plenty of funding options available for business who want to make their processes and operations more energy efficient. Resource Efficient Scotlandoffer an interest from loan to SMEs and the Carbon Trust offer a 30% capital grant.